Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

DA Warner
DA Warner
133(174) 11x4 - 2x6
Control %87%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 33 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
12 0 10 17 21 9 20 44
Ahmed Shehzad
Ahmed Shehzad
131(233) 10x4 - 4x6
Control %91%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 40 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
0 4 19 6 16 25 39 22

Best performances - Bowlers

Zulfiqar Babar
Zulfiqar Babar
O31.1
M7
R74
W5
Eco2.37
RHB
OFFLEG
2W2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
Yasir Shah
Yasir Shah
O25
M6
R50
W4
Eco2
RHB
OFFLEG
3W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Pakistan , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

Pakistan led the 2-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

10am start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 17.00

Match days

22,23,24,25,26 October 2014 (5-day match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorecard Summary

PAKISTAN 454(145 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

AUSTRALIA 303(103.1 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

PAKISTAN 286/2d(78 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

AUSTRALIA 216(91.1 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Alagappan Muthu

That's all we've got for you. Do stick around for the post-match quotes, analyses and videos that are bound to pour in on the site. And there's a second Test to play too, at Abu Dhabi on Thursday. So do join us then. For now, this is Alagappan Muthu, and Vekat Raghav saying sayonara

"Really required win for us. We were really struggling in the last two series. Will really give a lot of confidence to the youngsters who've just joined us," Misbah-ul-Haq. "We were determined after the one-day series loss. One bad innings and we lost the match in Sri Lanka. We really did well in every department in this Test and that really helped us put Australia under pressure. These bowlers are young at international level, but they have a lot of experience in first-class level. They know how to bowl longer spells and build pressure. Their temperement was wonderful. They got confidence from the four-day game win. And conditions suited them too. Really important to consolidate. We haven't won a series against Australia in so long. Big incentive for us, all the guys are determined to do well against them and we need to play disciplined cricket. Stick to basics, focus and we can do anything"

Younis Khan is the Man of the Match " Thank you to my followers for the support. Fans back home, media, family, friends, trainer, Grant Flower [batting coach] for working with me. I came here a week earlier. [Laughs when asked there was no contribution by the board] Board wanted and I wanted to play. There was a situation when I didn't want to play. My family motivated me. They said there maybe records created. I am thankful to them. I wanted to come back after the results in ODI's and T20. I worked with Grant Flower for week. We tried out a lot of different things. I got hit in ribs and shoulder. I was ready for them. They bowled well on the first day but we stuck around, giving belief to the team to play well. Looking at the way Shehzad, Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar Babar, Misbah, Shafiq and Sarfaraz played it's very important. This win will take us a long way"

"No doubt Pakistan deserve a lot of credit. Beat us in all three facets. Batmen batted us out, spinners had us in trouble. We have a couple of days to turn it around," says Michael Clarke, "Want to use our bat a little more. We knew spin would play a lot, but a lot of us gout out to balls that didn't spin. So we want to get into the right positions [when we're batting against spin]. Smith and Johnson fought as hard as they could. Again, Pakistan deserve credit. Younis showed how to play spin and reverse swing. Any time you make 400-450, that helps the bowlers put pressure on the opposition. Our bowlers had to work hard on a flat wicket on day one. We can turn it around, definitely. We've got the talent, the attitude and I'm sure you will see a different team in the next Test"

Satish chavan: "whenever Johnson plays a test match he makes sure that his name is in the match summary (recent years)"

Talal Dar: "We lost 13 consecutive Test matches against them. Now we have won two in a row. Only 11 more to go."

3.39 pm Pakistan get together in a huddle, it's broken only so they can shake hands with the opposition players. Younis Khan gets a stump, Yasir Shah gets a stump on debut, Misbah looks like its just another day in the office. But no, this is Pakistan 1-0 up in a two-match series.

Massab: "Now I can study in peace." Not waiting for the presentation?

zohaib: "Can't stop tears from my eyes after long time unbelievable victory.Lovely boys congrats"

91.1
W
Zulfiqar Babar to Siddle, OUT, wait, what happened there? Umpire Erasmus did not move, then he did as if he was stepping away to ensure he doesn't get in line with a throw, if it comes. And then raises the finger. Siddle wants a review, but it comes back against him. Siddle jumped down the track to defend, and manages to get just a little inside edge onto pad and straight into the hands of silly point. Five-for for Babar and he deserved it, after a few drops off his bowling

PM Siddle c Azhar Ali b Zulfiqar Babar 15 (66m 48b 1x4 0x6) SR: 31.25

END OF OVER:
91 | (maiden) | AUS: 216/9

  • Steve O'Keefe0 (6b)
  • Peter Siddle15 (47b)
  • Yasir Shah25-6-50-4
  • Zulfiqar Babar31-7-74-4
90.6
0
Yasir Shah to O'Keefe, no run, good length ball on middle, O"Keefe's played out the over quite confidently
90.5
0
Yasir Shah to O'Keefe, no run, looped up outside off, O'Keefe pads up to inspire a few muted appeals
90.4
0
Yasir Shah to O'Keefe, no run, tossed up slower and a little wider outside off, O'Keefe doesn't play at it

Younis has spotted something and conveys it to his young bowler

90.3
0
Yasir Shah to O'Keefe, no run, nicely tossed up and drifting in on middle, O'Keefe keeps it out
90.2
0
Yasir Shah to O'Keefe, no run, nicely tossed up just outside off, O'Keefe is forward to defend again

Australia tour of United Arab Emirates 2014-15 News

A rare feat

3

Number times that Pakistan have beaten Australia in a Test over the last 20 years

Leggie starts well

6

Number of wickets taken by Yasir Shah (at Tea) - the most by a Pakistan leg-spinner on debut

Tailend history

2

Number of 4th innings fifties for Mitchell Johnson when batting at No. 9 or lower. No other player has more than one

Good for the Average

5

Steve Smith's batting avg in fourth innings' before this Test. He had scored 20 runs from 4 inns. With this inns of 55, his avg. is now 15

Golden Oldie

35

35 Zulfiqar Babar’s age (35 years and 316 days). He is the oldest left-arm bowler from Pakistan to pick up a four-wicket haul in Tests

End of a wait

273

Number of balls between the 4th and 5th boundaries of the Australian innings - they had to wait from overs 9.1 to 54.3

Historic Drought

4

Number of fours hit by Australia in this innings (as of lunch) - their fewest in 80 years for an innings of 50+ overs

Boundary drought

200+

Number of balls since Australia's last boundary - by David Warner off the last ball of the 9th over

Is there hope?

84

Highest 6th wicket stand for Australia in the 4th innings after losing 5 wickets for less than 100 - b/w Clarke and Haddin at Mohali, 2008

Fifth-day toil in Dubai

2

No. of wickets taken in 122.2 overs when teams have batted fourth on the final day of a Dubai Test

Last-action hero?

57.5

Rogers' fourth-innings average from six innings - he got hundreds the last two times he batted in the fourth innings

Need to make history to win

66

Number of years since Australia have successfully chased a 400+ target. This has only happen 4 times in Tests (Highest score: 418).

Run batsmen run

2

Number of times, since 2001, that batsmen have taken two 3s off the first two balls of an innings - both times in Aus v Pak Tests

Younis runs riot

40

Number of years since a batsman made two hundreds in the same Test against Australia - Glenn Turner in 1974.